Atos Healthcare is a French company that's a contractor to the UK department for Work and Pensions, hired to test disabled benefits claimants on whether they're fit to work. If they are, they'll lose their disability benefits and are back on normal unemployment benefits. It is a controversial company, as its standards for declaring people fit to work are very low, as
The Daily Mirror has been showing. By design or through incompetence, quite a few people who are clearly incapable of work are declared fit for work anyway, lose their benefits and
some of them even die because of it, either through suicide or through the stress and healthcare problems caused by losing their benefits. (
previously.)
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posted by MartinWisse
on Aug 29, 2012 -
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